RIVERSIDE: Student accuses former teacher of sexual molestation

A 28-year-old woman has posted a YouTube video that she says is of her confronting a former Riverside teacher who molested her.

The YouTube user, who identifies herself only as "Jamie X," wrote in the video description that she decided to publish the video to warn other parents about the woman after finding out she moved onto a position at a high school in Alhambra.

The video names the woman, but since she has not been arrested or charged, The Press-Enterprise is withholding her name.

The woman is no longer employed by the Alhambra school district, the district said in a statement. When the district learned of the allegations, the case was sent to the police.

The Alhambra Police Department received a call reporting the abuse, but since the incident did not happen in Alhambra, police officials passed it to another investigative agency, according to Alhambra police Sgt. Mallette.

The Riverside Police Department is looking into the claims, but little information is available because the investigation is less than a day old, according to Riverside police Lt. Christian Dinco.

"Where that's going to lead we don't know at this point," the lieutenant said Monday morning.

Though the victim states in her video that the statute of limitations has expired, that may not be the case, Dinco said.

"We still want to look at it," he said.

The Riverside Unified School District had not yet verified previous employment of the teacher or enrollment of the woman, spokesman Mike Fine said in an email.

"Sixteen years ago were several HR systems ago and several student systems ago so we don't have ready access to data to confirm," Fine wrote.

He said the district, which was closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, would conduct a manual search Tuesday along with the police.

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